· Private foundation
Wilshire Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dean McGee Eye Institute | $125,000 |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation | $100,000 |
| Shirley Ryan AbilityLab | $100,000 |
| The 34 Project | $35,000 |
| Crime Stoppers of OKC | $17,750 |
| Free Food Pantry & Educational Center | $15,000 |
| Heritage Hall | $12,500 |
| National Shell Museum | $10,000 |
| American Legion Post 88 | $10,000 |
| Oklahoma Children's Theatre | $10,000 |
| Oklahoma City Repertory Theater | $10,000 |
| Carpenter Square Theatre | $5,000 |
| Clinic for Rehab of Wildlife (CROW) | $5,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $5,000 |
| Pilots to the Rescue | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $359k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +32%
DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $355k · revenue +56%
FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC6× · 2017–2022 · $162k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- NYNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $167k · revenue -13%
- HCHarry Chapin Foodbank of SW Floridaone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SJST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To promote the flourishing of the people of oklahoma by advancing principles and policies that support free enterprise, limited government, personal responsibility, and individual initiative.
To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
The mission of the oklahoma community service commission is to engage oklahomans of all ages and backgrounds in community-based service which supports americorps programs in oklahoma communities. services may include assisting with…
To provide a statewide voice for children by enhancing & sustaining the growth of local casa programs which provide trained community volunteers to represent the best interests of abused & neglected children.
An organization that provides a safe place for victims of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, and stalking as they make plans and arrangements to recover from trauma and begin new lives.
The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…
Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children
The primary goal of the oklahoma humane society is to end the needless euthanasia of adoptable pets in oklahoma. through its partnership with the oklahoma city animal shelter, the organization is able to transfer dogs and cats at risk of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santas Cause Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds 34 PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE HALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FUNDS FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Scholarship Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds The Free Food Pantry Inc & Educational Center ↗
- Who funds SUITED FOR SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds PIVOT INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA REPERTORY THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CAPTIVA CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANCTUARY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER SQUARE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTAS CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Legion Post 88 ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds TULSA BOYS' HOME INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · American Fidelity Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Inasmuch Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · Rainbolt Family Foundation · Love Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Wilshire Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
- Dean Mcgee Eye Institute — 1% of income from government
- Special Care Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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